We currently have a WAMP server that hosts our website and a MySQL database. Is it possible to run Splendid under this configuration:
Windows XP Pro SP/2, Apache 2.2.6, PHP 5.2.5, MySQL 5.0
We have also run Apache Tomcat on a different port for applications requiring JAVA (same server in conjunction with above).
I hate Windows Server Apps. They have a nasty habit of crashing when you least expect it and they are cumbersome to administer. As an OpenSource product, I expected that Splendid would run on the standard LAMP / WAMP stack, but was very surprised that it seems to run only on MS Server products??? Why?
The whole point of SplendidCRM is to be Microsoft centric. We can run on Linux using Mono, but there are issues and limitations.
Being an open-source application does not mean that it must run on LAMP or any individual part of LAMP. To be honest, we don't like LAMP. We often find that performing an admin action on Windows takes seconds, but doing the same on LAMP takes hours.
If you like PHP, then your best bet is to run SugarCRM. The whole point of open-source is that it allows a company such as ours to take a product such as SugarCRM and re-implement it on our perferred platform.
I certainly wasn not implying that you SHOULD run Splendid under WAMP, but asking whether it was POSSIBLE to do so. I already have a production server running Win XP Pro with a WAMP stack installed. It runs beautifully and I was inquiring as to the possibility of running SplendidCRM on the same machine. I simply do not want to get into all the security issues that Windows Server ahs experienced when I can very easily lock down permissions in Apache with only one or two lines of code in a central file. Really, I am just lazy :), I can't see the need to learn Windows Server Administration when I already know how to administer Apache very well.
Is there a listing of the "limitations and issues" for the Linux under Mono model? I can't seem to find anything very complete.
Sorry if I offended you, it wasn't my intent... only looking for clarification.
Thanks for the reply.
You should be able to install Mono on Apache on Windows XP. We have not done this as we do all our Mono research on Novell's SUSE Linux.
We recently did some work to get SplendidCRM 2.1 on Mono, but we had to remove references to the ReportViewer and to Silverlight. Mono has a parsing problem that prevents it from rendering embedded XAML.
Let me give you a senario:
Small Home-Improvement company wanting to track Leads, Customers and Marketing efforts. Probably never more than 4 users will have access to the program. Customers will never have access.
Would the limitations you describe in your last post affect this company? In other words, is XAML neccessary to handle the above senario?
Also, how would I go about installing Mono (download location and documentation are found where?) Once this is complete, do I simply install Splendid as usual or is there a tutorial or documentation outlining the steps required?
Sorry to be such a pain, but the General Manager is hot on this right now and I am trying to give him some answers.
Thanks again for all the help and taking the time to discuss this.
